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On Wednesday night, Dan "jungleman12" Cates made a surprising announcement while he was on Doug Polk's podcast regarding his tribulation that started back in 2010 with fellow pro poker player Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

Read more » Tom Dwan already paid Daniel Cates over $700,000 in Penalties from 2010 Durrrr Challenge

For a good few hours on August 2 Wednesday, 888poker players were greeted with a surprise appearance of Flopomania in the real-money cash game lobby of the site. There was no prior announcement by 888poker about their newest game, and they never put up an introductory page of it on their site. Out of the blue, it popped up, with low to micro stakes game available.

Read more » 888poker accidentally launches new online poker game ‘Flopomania’ too early

The winner of the 2017 High Roller for One Drop victor Doug Polk shall be facing off against the world's all-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth for a massive $200,000 on the 4th week of August at the Rivers Casino located just outside of Albany, New York.

Read more » Doug Polk vs Phil Hellmuth in Inaugural 50K buy-in Heads-up Poker Event

A man from Florida who has been freed on bail on a manslaughter charge with a deadly weapon had actually participated in this year's WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas, and got lucky to have won and collect more than $100K.

Read more » Man on bail on manslaughter charge won $100K at 2017 WSOP Main Event

On August 31 Monday, King's Casino announced that it has increased the guaranteed prize pool for the €10,350 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event which is scheduled on November 4 to 10. The guarantee was amped up from €4M to €5M, with the emerging winner to take home at least €1M!

Read more » New Venue & Guarantees Increased At 2017 WSOP Europe

The 2017 WSOP Main Event winner Scott Blumstein actually isn't the only man benefiting from the deuce on the river that took out Dan Ott on the final hand of poker's biggest tournament of the year. The world poker champion won for each of his four friends $40,750 out of the $8,150,000 he won, their massive reward for investing a tiny $60 a piece to support his $10,000 buy-in to the tournament.

Read more » 2017 WSOP Main Event winner’s friends now $40K richer from $60 investment

Let's take a look at one of the runner ups of the 2017 WSOP Main Event final table, and you'd be surprised to learn that he's just an ordinary 64-year-old grandpa from Bridlington, England.

Read more » Grandpa travels to Las Vegas just to check off bucket list - Wins $2.6 Million!

Phil Ivey has been fighting against the Crockfords Casino in London and Borgata Casino in New Jersey in a court battle since 2012. The podcast gives us a closer look at these two cases.

Read more » ESPN releases new podcast about Phil Ivey's edge sorting case

On Friday night, at a short break on the World Series of Poker Main Event final table, a governing council proudly announced the induction of their 53rd and 54th members - the iconic poker pro Phil Ivey and the late David "Devilfish" Ulliott - into the Poker Hall of Fame.

Read more » Phil Ivey and David Ulliott inducted into Poker Hall of Fame

The poker world crowned a new world champion this weekend, as USA's Scott Bluemstein took down the 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event for $8,150,000 and the gold and diamond covered bracelet! It was the first time Blumstein played the Main Event. It was a memorable one to say the least, as he took the chip lead on Day 7 and led the final table almost from start to finish!

Read more » Scott Blumstein Wins The 2017 WSOP Main Event!

The plan for the first day of the 2017 WSOP Main Event final table was play down to 6 players, however, the eliminations took very long and tournament organizers finally called it a day at around 11:00 pm, when only 2 players had been sent packing. The two unfortunate players not to make it through the first day were Ben Lamb (9th for $1,000,000) and Jack Sinclair (8th for $1,200,000).

Read more » 2017 WSOP Main Event: Scott Blumstein in massive lead after first day of final table concludes with 7 players

After over a week of intensive play, a massive field of 7,221 entries (the third biggest in WSOP Main Event history) have become only 9 players with the chance taking home the $8,150,000 first-place prize and become the world champion! 

Read more » 2017 WSOP Main Event: FINAL TABLE IS SET!

In the world of poker, when someone mentions the name Phil Ivey, most people would throw out a flurry of various topics surrounding the controversial and mysterious poker pro. However, whatever they say, Phil Ivey is still considered as one of the world's best poker players of today.

Read more » An In-Depth Look in the Life of Poker Pro Phil Ivey

A lot has happened since our previous Main Event update last Friday, as over 1000 players have become only 27 players still with the chance of taking down the most highly regarded poker tournament in the world!

Read more » 2017 WSOP Main Event: 27 Players Left - 2015 Bracelet Winner In The Lead!

$150,000 in guaranteed prize pools will be up for grabs during 888poker's exciting ChampionChip Micro Series, running between 23/07/2017 - 30/07/2017, 18 tournaments with micro buy-ins starting at just $1!

Read more » ChampionChip Micro Series - $150,000 Guaranteed!

Day 3 of the Main Event has come to an end and now there are only 1,084 players left. The money bubble bursted after about 14 hours of play on Day 3 when Quan Zhou and Roger Campbell were eliminated on 2 separate tables.

Read more » 2017 WSOP: 1084 Players Remain After Day 3

Day 2c of the 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event concluded with 1,524 players and Englishman Artan Dedusha in the chip lead with 680k in chips. Not far behind Dedusha in the final Day 2C chip counts was Ryan Hughes (picture), a US poker pro who has a fantastic winning streak this summer with a couple of final tables and and 15 cashes! 

Read more » 2017 WSOP Main Event: 1,524 Players Survived Day 2C

On July 9, Sunday was a memorable day for Australian Heidi May, who won 2017 WSOP's Event #70: Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship $10,000 Buy-in (Ladies Discount to $1,000 Buy-in), a 3-day event which started on July 7, Friday at 11am.

Read more » 2017 WSOP: Australia's Heidi May wins $1,000 Ladies NLHE

The first Day 2 (Day 2ab) started on Tuesday with 2,219 players and finished a short while ago with roughly 1,100 survivors. Mickey Craft (from the 1a flight) and Lawrence Bayley (from Day 1b flight) were the top 2 players at the end of Day 2ab, both bagging over 600k in chips each.

Read more » 2017 WSOP Main Event: About 1,100 players through from Day 2ab to Day 3

On July 9, Sunday was an awesome day for Dieter Dechant, who won 2017 WSOP's Event #19: $365 GIANT No-Limit Hold'em, an event which started on June 9 at 7pm. The event drew a massive number of 10,015 participants, building a prize pool of $3,004,500.

Read more » 2017 WSOP: Dieter Dechant wins The GIANT - $365 NLHE

Meet Ian ‘ApokerJoker2' Steinman, who reigned supreme at the WSOP.com online poker tournaments in 2016. This year, he's a name to watch out for as he's participating at the World Series of Poker live tables.

Read more » 2017 WSOP: Current WSOP.com Player of the Year doing well on live tables

As predicted, the final Day 1 flight of the WSOP $10,000 Main Event is the biggest ever in seven years. On July 10, Monday at the Rio Las Vegas, a total of 4,262 entrants gathered for Day 1C, the third and final starting day of the 2017 WSOP Main Event.

Read more » 2017 WSOP: Day 1C Main Event Report

Day 1B started at 11am on July 9, Sunday with players scattered about at the Brasilia Room and Amazon Room in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Day 1B's number of players signed up are so many, specifically 2,164, that the Amazon and Brasilia's Rooms were quickly jam-packed, which called for the Miranda Room to be occupied as well. Overall, the player turnout for Day 1A and Day 1B is 2,959.

Read more » 2017 WSOP: Day 1B Main Event Report